... political dust in Washington settling down, it is becoming increasingly clear that the US Democratic administration policy toward Russia and China contains more elements of continuity than elements of change. Unfortunately, this continuity is not something ... ... incentive for making these ties more diverse and intensive.
After China, Foreign Minister Lavrov is making an extended stop in South Korea. Here, again, the Russian minister can find plenty of issues to discuss with his hosts that have little or nothing ...
What lessons can Russia and Chine draw from the Korean War to better handle conflict?
This year marks the 70
th
anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. It was initially a civil war that gradually evolved into an international conflict, during which the Soviet ...
... and they agreed to discuss the possibility of supplying the country with a light-water reactor. The United States, Japan and South Korea also undertook to normalize their relations with North Korea, provided that the latter returns to the Treaty on the ... ... social problems will be so great that they may jeopardize the country’s status and economic position. Moving on to China and Russia, they do not want to see a conflict breaking out on the Korean peninsula and call for stability, in the hope that it may ...
US Antipathy to Inter-Korean Rapprochement and Russia’s Role in Conflict Prevention
Thanks to the “New Year’s” initiatives of Kim Jong-un – to which South Korean Moon Jae-in responded for his own reasons – significant progress was made in the inter-Korean dialogue at the highest level during the recent Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang (the possibility of an inter-Korean summit is even on the table),...
... to use the words of Ri Son-Gwon, head of North Korea’s delegation at the inter-Korean talks held on January 9, 2018 in the South Korean segment of the demilitarized zone in Panmunjom.
In his traditional New Year’s speech, supreme leader of North Korea ... ... used it as a “vent” to reduce pressure in the “Korean cauldron” by eroding the united front of its enemies. China and Russia eagerly supported these initiatives, and South Korea is on now on Pyongyang’s side as well, as it is extremely interested ...
... commitments? These risks will, of course, continue for the foreseeable future – although they can be limited. First of all, the refusal to demand unconditional and immediate nuclear disarmament should reduce the level of paranoia in Pyongyang and promote North ... ... plays its usual double game, it is all the more imperative to establish effective cooperation among the intelligence services of Russia, China, the United States, South Korea and Japan. Today, such cooperation, if it even exists, is clearly not up to the challenge: judging by numerous “intelligence ...
...
North Korea is driven by the basic instinct of survival in the face of actual and imaginary threats on the part of the U.S. and South Korea. The only way for Pyongyang to safeguard itself against its external enemies and preserve sovereignty is to have nuclear ... ... leave the Korean Peninsula entirely, and for the alliance between Washington and Seoul to become a thing of the past.
What about Russia then? It appears that Moscow will side with China in this game. An important signal to that effect came in the form of ...
... entire planet. It is here where the interests of large powers like the US, China, and Russia intersect. The range of forces that could be deployed in a possible conflict... ... Korean peninsula, which lasted from March 7 to April 30. The
exercise
involved 290,000 South Korean and about 15,000 American troops (the
US deployed
an additional marine... ... people. The real number of North Korean military today is about 600 – 650 thousand troops (mostly ground troops with a rather small air force, navy, special forces...
... independence a million “Chinese volunteers” fought (many of them giving their lives for the cause, including Mao Zedong’s own son). From the point of view of geopolitics, preserving the South Korean buffer that prevents the appearance of thousands of U.S. and South Korean troops along the 1000-kilometre long border between Korea and China is imperative for Beijing.
Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia:
the Russian-South Korean Experts Joint Paper
However, the young Kim Jong-un listens to the Chinese even less than his father and grandfather did – and even throws down the gauntlet to them – despite the fact that China is essentially the hand ...
Interview with Natalya Stapran, Alexander Gabuyev, Sergey Luzyanin and Won Dong Cho
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal was sealed on 5 October 2015. Moscow’s stance on the TPP has not been defined yet.
The Russian International Affairs Council has asked
Natalya Stapran
, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia;
Alexander Gabuyev
, ...
